On Mon, Jun 03, 2024 at 07:42:17PM -0500, David Wright wrote:
> On Mon 03 Jun 2024 at 18:29:17 (-0400), Greg Wooledge wrote:
> > ‘-s’
> > ‘--summarize’
> > Display only a total for each argument.
> >
> > There's supposed to be a total *FOR EACH ARGUMENT*. There isn't.
>
> Try adding -l. The idea is that du is trying to avoid double-counting,
> so when the subdirectories come first, those ones are "used up" by
> the time it reaches the parent. When the parent is first, it's (all)
> the subdirectories instead that have been "used up".
‘-l’
‘--count-links’
Count the size of all files, even if they have appeared already (as
a hard link).
This documentation leaves a lot to be desired.
Anyway, you are correct about the result, even if the documentation gives
no realistic way to conclude such a result.
hobbit:~$ printf '%s\0' "${1:-.}" "${1:-.}"/*/ | xargs -0 du -shl
684M /usr/local
81M /usr/local/bin/
4.0K /usr/local/etc/
4.0K /usr/local/games/
136K /usr/local/include/
45M /usr/local/lib/
29M /usr/local/man/
8.0K /usr/local/sbin/
31M /usr/local/share/
484M /usr/local/src/
44M /usr/local/tcl8.6/
